Investing in Single Family Homes

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We spoke to a whole bunch of real state investors, like, we learnt about an entire class of assets called single family rentals that started from post financial crisis blackstone and a city bank. People who came out of these funds just went and bought massive amounts of single family homes and rented it out. The structure really interesting but associated with it are massive costs. So so it just turned out to be a confluence of things that canhave come together, ah, that made zerodown possibley yer. i think it's a really interesting point about sirvaveshi pias, what did you learn from the companies at falld?

Laks Srini is the cofounder and CTO of ZeroDown. Before that he was the cofounder and CTO of Zenefits.

You can find him on Twitter at @laks_srini.

The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.

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Topics

00:00 - Intro

00:30 - What is ZeroDown?

1:50 - How did they test the idea?

3:50 - What did they learn from companies that failed in the space?

8:00 - Breaking down the product

11:25 - ZeroDown's customers

13:35 - Expanding to other markets

15:50 - What if a downturn happens?

17:10 - ZeroDown's hiring strategy

20:10 - What are their hardest technical challenges?

22:05 - ZeroDown's breadth and product strategy

26:40 - Customer interviews

28:35 - Should everyone own a house?

29:50 - Home ownership in the future

32:45 - Build something you really want to see in the world

34:40 - Working with his cofounders was the most important consideration